Temple Trip

Highlight of the week was definitely the temple trip we took on Friday.

Pointing up (at what, not quite sure)

Tuesday- We went on an exchange with the Zone Leaders. I was with by buddy Elder Aitken. We did a lot of tracting. We had dinner with Sister Persinger, then met the Priests at a restaurant for mutual. Afterwards, we went and visited a less active. She was sick and unable to meet, but she told us that there was a man down the street that was being taught. We didn't know which house, so we did some more knocking. We found a couple of potentials and we did find the former investigator. 

Wednesday- We did a lot of tracting once again. This time it was raining. Someone threatened to call the cops on us. It was a fun day. We went and had a lesson with Benny. 

Thursday- We went early in the morning to do some service for Bro. Grimes. The weather reminded me of baseball. It made me baseball trunky. We went that night to visit the Shortts. They're having a rough go right now, but we were able to help them out a little. 

with President Baker

Friday- One of the best days of my life. We had to wake up early to get to Williamsburg by 6:30. We saw some of the youth there for seminary. We talked about logistics stuff, then seperated into our vehicles and got going. I rode with Elder Zonts. He gave me a letter from the Cooks in Newport News. They're awesome. They're my favorite. It was a 3 hour ride down to Apex, North Carolina. We got there and went straight in. It was just the missionaries from the stake and we still filled up the room. It's a really small temple. After the session, we got dressed and sent outside to take a group photo. While we were, McKay Jaussi, one of my best buds, drove by in a car. He stopped and as soon as pictures were over, I went over there. We didn't get much time to catch up, but we did get a picture taken. Elder Jaussi is in the Raleigh mission. He lives two doors down from me back home!!! It was nuts. We had a  brief zone conference about family history and temple work. President Taggert, the temple president spoke to us a little bit. We got some time to take our own pictures after the meeting. We loaded back up and rode for ever. We stopped in Emporium, Virginia for some dinner. We didn't get home 'til 10:15. Best day ever.

Saturday- We did weekly planning. We went and met with the Kramps. They're so awesome. 

Sunday- We had a linger longer after church. There was so much great food. We visited with the Cox family. We helped them get started on the vision to get to the temple. 

President Taggert talked a little about the symbols used in the temple. One of the ones he spoke about was the circle inside of the square. The square represents this earth/mortality. The Circle represents the next life/immortality. These two put together mean that the temple is where mortality meets immortality. I testify that that is true. The Spirit that I felt in the temple is greater that any other Spirit I have ever felt. That's as close as you can get to heaven while on this earth. Have a great week. Love you all.

Elder Dumont

with Elder Sandstrom

The District

The House of the Lord